Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (23 December 1973-) was a British-Pakistani terrorist who was involved with Jaish-e-Mohammed, al-Qaeda, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, and the Taliban.

Biography
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was born in London, England in 1973, the son of prosperous clothing business owners from Pakistan. He won a junior chess championship in London and also studied at the London School of Economics, but he dropped out in his first year after coming into contact with radical Islamists there. He left Britain under the pretense of driving aid convoys in Bosnia, but he never came back to school, instead joining jihadist groups. He served five years in prison at Ghaziabad due to his role in the 1994 abduction of four British and American travelers in India, and he was released as a part of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 deal. He became an ISI operative in 1993 (and was also alleged to be backed by CIA connections), and, by 1994, he was operating training camps in Afghanistan, earning the title of Osama Bin Laden's "special son". In 2002, he was sentenced to death by the Pakistani government for the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl, and he was arrested on 12 February 2002. In 2014, he failed in a suicide attempt at the Karachi Prison after his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.